Corner-fastening for bedsteads.



No. es|,39o. Patented Aug. 22, I899. s. J. TURNER.

CORNER FASTENING FOB BEDSTEADS.

(Application fll ed In 20, 1899.).

"Will"! Inn v and at the bottom by end rails A B UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL J. TURNER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CORNER-FASTENING FOR BEDSTEADSf SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 631,390, dated August 22, 1899.

Application filedv January 20, 1899. Serial No. 702,781. (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL J TURNER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corner-Fastenings for Bedsteads, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in corner-fastenings for bedsteads, the purpose being to simplify the construction, as well as to cheapen and strengthen the fastening.

The drawings illustrating the invention.

show, in Figure 1, an end elevation of a bedstead with parts broken away; in Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section of one corner in plane 2 2 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows; in Fig. 3, a perspective of the fastening, together with the adjacent portion of the bedstead; in Fig. 4, a perspective of the member of the fastening, which is permanently secured to the corner-post; and in Fig. 5, a horizontal section in plane 5 5 of Fig. 2.

In the drawings the head-posts are lettered A A and the foot-posts B B. These posts are connected at the top by cross-pieces A B The side rails are lettered C.

For the purpose of securing the end rails to the corner-posts and furnishing means for engagement with the side rails I have provided four corner-blocks D. (Shown in perspective from opposite sides in Figs. 3 and 4.) These corner-blocks have sockets 61 upon one side and recesses (1 upon the other. From the bottoms of the recesses project lugs C1 The recessed sides of the blocks are secured to the flat sides of the corner-posts, inclosing upon all but one side sockets adapted to receive hooked fastenin gs for the side rails. The lugs (1 project transversely of the sockets to engage with the hooks of said fastenings. The end rails are fastened permanently in the sockets of the corner-blocks in putting them together, but the side rails are intended to be. easily engaged or disengaged therefrom, as in the ordinary bedstead. For this purpose said side rails have upon their opposite ends covering-plates E, (shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 5,) in which are vertical slots e, back of which the inner material of the side rail is cutaway to receive a hooked plate F, provided with a notch f at the top and a shoulder f at the bottom. The hooked plate is placed in the slot in the covering-plate before the latter is put on the side rail by inserting the lower end first, slipping the notch upon the coveringplate, and drawing the lower end outward until the shoulder f rests upon the coveringplate at the lower end of the slot. When the covering-plate is fastened to the end of the side rail, the hooked plate is secured firmly in position; but if it should be thought desirable for any purpose a pin, such as is shown in section in Fig. 2, may be passed through the hooked plate and the side rail. I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent 1. The combination with the side and end rails of a bedstead, of flat-sided metal cornerposts arranged with their flat sides substau t-ially parallel with the side rails and corner blocks formed with sockets upon one side and recesses upon the other and having the recessed sides secured to the flat sides of the corner posts, the sockets upon the other side receiving the end rails and the recesses, together with the adjacent sides'of the posts forming sockets which receive and conceal to engage with said fastenings; substantially as described.

3. In a side rail, the combination with a slotted end covering-plate of the hooked fastening-plate, F, having the notch, f, adapted to fit over the upper edge of the slot and the shoulder, f, to rest upon the lower edge thereof; substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 7 hand, at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, this 9th day of January, A. D. 1899.

SAMUEL J. TURNER.

Witnesses:

CHAS. O. SHERvEY, S. BLIss. 

